Jonny 290 posted:

2600: The Hacker Quarterly is an American publication that specializes in publishing technical information on a variety of subjects including telephone switching systems, Internet protocols and services, as well as general news concerning the computer "underground" and left wing, and sometimes (but not recently), anarchist issues

snype

Sweevo posted:

my friend from college used to host 2600 meetings. he also carried a printed out copy of the jargon file everywhere with him, and was an ordained subgenius minister.

lazar wulf posted:

imitation dews: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_citrus_sodas

quote:

Types of Satire

Satirical literature can commonly be categorized as either Horatian or Juvenalian, although the two are not entirely mutually exclusive..
Horatian

Named for the Roman satirist, Horace, this playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild, and light-hearted humour. It directs wit, exaggeration, and self-deprecating humour toward what it identifies as folly, rather than evil. Horatian satire's sympathetic tone is common in modern society.

Examples of Horatian satire include:

* Daniel Defoe's The True-Born Englishman
* Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock
* C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters
* The Onion, an American satiric weekly
* Matt Groening's The Simpsons
* The Ig Nobel Prizes.
* Family guy

quote:

I am a fairly advanced end-user running WinXP Pro SP3 on a six-year old fairly powerful quite standard Win PC. A new ATI video card required .NET 2.0 for it's "Catalyst" drivers so I tried it. Next I was bedeviled by error messages that were indecipherable (it had made at least 100 registry entries). So not knowing what to do, I uninstalled both .NET 2.0 and the ATI catalyst drivers.

Someone who thinks they are a writer posted:

My Firefox browser informed me today that Microsoft had installed an add-on to the browser I am using. I did not ask for it. But is that not the usual modus operandi of this rapacious company? I am not a techie, a programmer, or any other sort of computer geek. However, I am a writer, and quite a good one. In my occupation I take complex situations or topics and make them readable and understandable. Now here I was, labouring under the received wisdom that Wikipedia could possibly provide me with a clear and understandable article about the .NET Framework, specifically why I, as a layman with no interest in programming, should require it to take up so much space, so surreptitiously, on my computer. What I read is opaque, nearly impenetrable jargon that - in those sections that are understandable to a non-programmer - sounds like an angel chorus singing its praises.

Sweevo posted:

its cute the way the scotch make out like that's a real language so they can pretend to have a culture that doesn't involve heroin and deep-frying

Someone who thinks they are a writer posted:

My Firefox browser informed me today that Microsoft had installed an add-on to the browser I am using. I did not ask for it. But is that not the usual modus operandi of this rapacious company? I am not a techie, a programmer, or any other sort of computer geek. However, I am a writer, and quite a good one. In my occupation I take complex situations or topics and make them readable and understandable. Now here I was, labouring under the received wisdom that Wikipedia could possibly provide me with a clear and understandable article about the .NET Framework, specifically why I, as a layman with no interest in programming, should require it to take up so much space, so surreptitiously, on my computer. What I read is opaque, nearly impenetrable jargon that - in those sections that are understandable to a non-programmer - sounds like an angel chorus singing its praises.

quote:

Now here I was, labouring under the received wisdom that Wikipedia could possibly provide me with a clear and understandable article about the .NET Framework, specifically why I, as a layman with no interest in programming, should require it to take up so much space, so surreptitiously, on my computer.

Hammerite posted:

idk man, the commas look appropriate to me. the only thing that seems wrong about the sentence is the "specifically why I" (specifically why i what?)

Hammerite posted:

idk man, the commas look appropriate to me. the only thing that seems wrong about the sentence is the "specifically why I" (specifically why i what?)

Hammerite posted:

idk man, the commas look appropriate to me. the only thing that seems wrong about the sentence is the "specifically why I" (specifically why i what?)

JawnV6 posted:

my brain keeps bailing on parsing it around "labouring under the received wisdom that Wikipedia could possibly provide me with a clear and understandable article about the .NET Framework"

it's missing a word or has an extra or idk

Sweevo posted:

its cute the way the scotch make out like that's a real language so they can pretend to have a culture that doesn't involve heroin and deep-frying

Wood Warder posted:

Purple prose is a term of literary criticism used to describe passages, or sometimes entire literary works, written in prose so overly extravagant, ornate, or flowery as to break the flow and draw attention to itself. Purple prose is sensually evocative beyond the requirements of its context. It also refers to writing that employs certain rhetorical effects such as exaggerated sentiment or pathos in an attempt to manipulate a reader's response.

Eegah posted:

the things
you say
your purple prose just gives you away
the things
you say


you're unbelievable

Eegah posted:

the things
you say
your purple prose just gives you away
the things
you say


you're unbelievable

Nevergirls posted:

I have a friend who literally still goes to their meetings.

Wood Warder posted:

Purple prose is a term of literary criticism used to describe passages, or sometimes entire literary works, written in prose so overly extravagant, ornate, or flowery as to break the flow and draw attention to itself. Purple prose is sensually evocative beyond the requirements of its context. It also refers to writing that employs certain rhetorical effects such as exaggerated sentiment or pathos in an attempt to manipulate a reader's response.

Eegah posted:

the things
you say
your purple prose just gives you away
the things
you say


you're unbelievable

Sweevo posted:

its cute the way the scotch make out like that's a real language so they can pretend to have a culture that doesn't involve heroin and deep-frying

Luigi Thirty posted:

and making GBS threads in the world's worst toilets

Barack Pwnbama posted:

whats up with the toilets


are they worse then the german poopshelf ones or what

Luigi Thirty posted:

Barack Pwnbama posted:

oh i see a man bites ur balls when ur shittin

TOOT BOOT posted:

its me

Barack Pwnbama posted:

i havent seen trainspottin yet

Nevergirls posted:

the book is great and after reading it you'll be nearly ready to read sco.wikipedia.org and understand it

DaTroof posted:

i read filth and must have been two hundred pages into it before i finally figured out what fitbah was